Today, we’d like to introduce you to Morgan Long. Morgan was introduced to us by the brilliant and talented Melody Muzljakovich.
Hi Morgan, we’re so thrilled to have you sharing your story with us today. Maybe we can kick things off by having you introduce yourself to our readers? We’d love to have you go into your story and how you got to where you are today.
Sad Panda Studios was started 5 years ago by 3 friends who wanted to build fun and flirty video games. Crush Crush, our first game, has been played by more than 7 million people worldwide, and is available on many different platforms including Steam, Android and Web.
Sad Panda Studios believes that games can do more than just pass the time! Our Studio is on a mission to create fun, fascinating and intense games that surprise players and tug at the heartstrings. We hope that by engaging our player communities directly, and fostering deep attachment to our roster of characters and experiences, we will succeed in standing out and making a name for ourselves for outstanding games and visual novels.
Please tell us more about your brand, Sad Panda Studios Ltd.
Primarily we make free to play dating games that have a lot of heart and humor. Our most successful product, Crush Crush, is a mashup of idle and dating sim genres. In Crush Crush’s case, we had previously worked on an Idle game called AdVenture Capitalist, and thought that the mechanics would fit together perfectly with a Dating Sim. Voila! Crush Crush was born. Our formula probably looks a little different from other studios, but we always start with a desire to create charming, interesting, believable characters. Even when the context of a character is fantastical, (like a robot girl from space, or a demon boy, or something) we want the dialogue to flow naturally. To use humor as a basis to establish familiarity, and to edify the player, before transitioning into a character tone that feels sincere and engaging.
So, as we mentioned to our audience earlier, you were introduced to us by Melody Muzljakovich and we really admire them and what they’ve built. For folks who might not be as familiar, can you tell them a bit about your experience with Melody.
Working with Melody was a real treat – she was so patient and understanding with us while we figured out what we were looking for with our voice direction. When we hired her to perform character voices for our characters, we were still pretty green to the whole thing. We scouted her on a voice acting talent site and collaborated to find the right ‘voice’ for 2 of our more popular characters – Elle and Bearverly. She delivered top knotch takes with perfect comedic timing, clarity, and punctuality. She was also a delight to communicate with over email, if we wanted any lines tweaked or performance changes. Ever since that first casting in our game Crush Crush, we have looked forward to working with her more and so far have cast her in at least 1 new game that we have coming up.
Website: https://sadpandastudios.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrushCrushDX
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/StrangeIdeasSoftware/videos
Other: https://store.steampowered.com/app/459820/Crush_Crush/
